Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it may be urged that self-help ought to be strictly limited even against a wrongdoer and forbidden altogether against one who is not a wrongdoer , except that retaking might be permitted in circumstances of inevitable accident or of necessity ( e.g . |
| 3 | The ORTF had become too big to be effectively controlled politically by the Information Minister or effectively managed by DGs ( three between 1958 and 1964 ) ; the latter , whether top civil servants , ‘ conseillers d'etat ’ or not , were not broadcasting professionals and had too short a ‘ run ’ to master the vast and complex , heavily unionized and bureaucratic juggernaut that the ORTF had become . |
| 4 | The church seems to be slightly set away from the village , and is very elusive as you drive through , being only reached either through a farmyard or down a lane off the road to Wansford . |
| 5 | Chairman David Crossland — who often looks rather pasty compared to his occasionally tanned colleagues — has to be positively dragged away on holiday . |
| 6 | It seems then ( possibly retarded by a cotyledonary stalk up to 3 m long ) , to be slowly moving downhill as a species . |
| 7 | But those fertile cultural fields which are said to have been generated and sustained by this vitalizing flow of truly native experience turn out to be presently inhabited only by a " limited section " of the society . |
| 8 | To be thus punished twice in a matter of some three weeks seemed grossly unjust . |
| 9 | It was a formidable list and by now Mrs Phelps was filled with wonder and excitement , but it was probably a good thing that she did not allow herself to be completely carried away by it all . |
| 10 | It seems that if a work is to continue to grow rather than to ‘ consolidate ’ ( a word not found in my Bible ! ) the people need to be progressively taken forward from goal to goal . |
| 11 | While the ambulance waited , it had to be carefully put away in the cupboard , as she had never in all her life left things draining by the sink . |
| 12 | Experimenters who expected their subjects to be brighter behaved differently towards the rats and thus affected the rats ' learning abilities . |
| 13 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 14 | Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ? |
| 15 | We must be careful , however , not to be too carried away by this idea . |
| 16 | Here we go , Leith thought , fully expecting to be still sitting there at midday . |
| 17 | There were times , however , when I felt that something , more active , more positive was needed , to be much used later in the year . |
| 18 | You appear to be almost running away from the — the dastardly spot where it happened . ’ |
| 19 | Surmounted by a mirrored dome , Dr Graham 's invention was supported by twenty-eight glass pillars and was encircled by 1,500 pounds of lodestones ‘ so as to be continually pouring forth in ever-flowing circles inconceivable and irresistibly powerful tides of the magnetic effluxion , which is well-known to have a very strong affinity with the electric fire . ’ |
| 20 | Used to be really sitting there with blankets and water bottles and everything watching the telly . |
| 21 | Journalists today draw information to their desks through the telephone modem and fax machine and writerly competence is likely to be routinely assessed less in terms of what and more in terms of how information is accessed , assembled and styled . |
| 22 | the recommendations have been shown to be readily accepted both by line and functional management ; |
| 23 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 24 | The first of these concern a judgement as to the likelihood of the pupil returning to school which in turn is seen to be crucially influenced both by the nature of the pupil 's case history and the record of the school in re-admitting pupils . |
| 25 | Trudgill ( 1986 : 36 – 7 ) reports research which shows that certain vowel distinctions in Norwich English are unlikely to be correctly acquired even by children born in Norwich , unless their parents were also born there . |